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Decades later I feel the biggest thing Obamacare changed was pre existing conditions. What I grew up with would horrify an 18 year old as much as what we have now horrifies a European. But yeah I’m pissed we couldn’t get single payer back then
Absolutely agree. I was a teen when it passed so did not really experience beforehand. But now I've been looking at pet insurance and the preexisting thing is crazy! I don't know if it's the same as it used to be for us, but the pet stuff is set up so even if you had one company the entire life of the pet, if you try to change companies the new company won't cover any issues that the old company did because now they are pre-existing 😒 and a few months ago an insurance company dropped like everybody from their company so they couldn't really get a new plan because now everything is preexisting. And it wasn't even their choice to move. I think only 1 company allowed people to switch and honor what the old company covered.
Not to mention for us, long term disability insurance also doesn't cover preexisting conditions. I think most life insurance doesn't either.